Our article on human multidomain protein biogenesis is now published in @natsmb.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The 2025 Ig Nobel-winning research was as wacky as ever. But wars, visa restrictions, Trump's border and research policies, and even an all-too-frequent airplane incident kept nearly half the winning teams from traveling to Boston @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Join us at the Plant Science Research Institute of the University of Montreal to develop your research group in Plant Molecular Genetics: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

🦠 ‼️WEBINAR ALERT‼️🦠 Join us for the September edition of the Virology Wakate Journal Club. Our featured speaker is Dr. Chantal Vogels, Assistant Professor at Yale School of Public Health (@yalesph.bsky.social). Please repost! To register: forms.gle/jGn9Y8c55Mp5...

Restricted edition of ALS is required during co-edition in order to maintain normal tomato development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.27.672575v1

Cytosolic viral RNA is detected by #antiviral #PatternRecognition receptors like RIG-I. This study shows that #Mediator subunit MED23 limits RIG-I expression via FOXO3, dampening #InnateImmunity & highlighting MED23 as a potential therapeutic target @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/457VwOe

Do plasmids evolve faster 🐇, slower 🐢, or just like chromosomes 🧬? In our new paper, we tackled this question using theory, simulations, bioinformatics, and experiments! 👇 Check out all the details in Paula’s thread! Hint: 🐇 (most of the time)

ProtPhage: a deep learning framework for phage viral protein identification and functional annotation. #PhageProteins #FunctionalAnnotation #DeepLearning #Phages #Bioinformatics 🧬 🖥️ academic.oup.com/bib/article/...

In First Release @science.org this week A hypoxia-responsive tRNA-derived small RNA confers renal protection through RNA autophagy | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Mechanism of cotranslational protein N-myristoylation in human cells

🌱 🌽 SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW 🦠 🧬 The role of mobile DNA elements in the dynamics of plant genome plasticity - Emmerson & Catoni 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪 @robynemm.bsky.social‬

We just released in #GenomeBiology an important collective work. Improved assembly and annotation of a virus resistance locus in #cassava. @universitedeliege.bsky.social @kuleuvenplantinst.bsky.social @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social @inrae-cnrgv.bsky.social @yvdp.bsky.social rdcu.be/et1TZ

TOC1 supresses PAMP-triggered immunity in Arabidopsis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.16.665052v1

Are you interested in how DNA virus infection can change host chromatin localization🦠 ? Come to see my poster at #2025ISMPMI @geminiteamlab.bsky.social 📃Poster P-224:Tuesday 15th, Session 1

The @geminiteamlab.bsky.social on the way to #2025ISMPMI See you all there!! 🫶🏻

Have you ever wondered why virus-infected plants twist, curl, yellow, and/or stop growing? We did—you can read what we found in our latest review: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... @gmvalora.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social

Seen a number of groups working on this, but impressive work to produce transgene free heritable genome editing that avoids tissue culture in monocots. Importantly has potential for a range of species www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The GreenRobust Cluster of Excellence, a joint venture of the Universities of Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Hohenheim, is now a reality!! For the next 7 years, we will investigate the principles underlying robustness to perturbations in plants. Stay tuned! greenrobust.de 🍾🥂💚🌱 @dfg.de

mTORC1 is activated when cells are fed with amino acids. New preprint with @robzonculab.bsky.social led by Rachel Jansen shows how the massive "CastiGATOR" complex is formed when arginine-free CASTOR1 binds to the GATOR2 complex to antagonize mTORC1 starved cells. tinyurl.com/yr6en6f4

New CRISPR tools for tomato functional genomics from Eilon Shani! 🍅 🧬 ✂️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lots of cool new features at the BAR ePlant Browser, such as ecotype SNP data mapped to protein sequence and structure. Check it out at: bar.utoronto.ca/eplant/ #PlantScience @bar-plantbio.bsky.social

New year, new paper! Now published in @nature.com. We identified and characterised diverse immune cell states in plants under pathogen attack. My postdoc work in the Ecker lab at @salkinstitute.bsky.social. A thread (0/n) #PlantScience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We identified protein domains in LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor). Their distinctive amino acid usage reveals the order amino acids were added to the genetic code, based mostly on size. Older proteins hint at earlier alternative codes. 1/15 @seekingluca.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Engineering source-sink relations by prime editing confers heat-stress resilience in tomato and rice www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Anti-viral defence by an mRNA ADP-ribosyltransferase that blocks translation www.nature.com/articles/s41...